Get an annotated online bibliography on small-scale fisheries and fishing communities. Resources are classified under eight themes: Right to Resources, Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture, Disasters and Climate Change, Decent Work, Fisheries Trade, Aquaculture, Biodiversity and SSF Guidelines
Women engage in a wide range of activities in fisheries, including paid and unpaid work and liaison with institutions. In several countries, women dominate inland fishing and aquaculture. Their play multiple roles – in seafood processing plants, as caregivers in the family, as the builders of social networks and community.
Gender issues focus not on women only but on their relationship with men, on their roles, rights and responsibilities. They acknowledge that these vary within and between cultures as well as by class, race, ethnicity, age and marital status.
The 2014 SSF Guidelines are based on the principle of gender equality and equity. They integrate gender issues into all small-scale fisheries development strategies.
The emerging world crisis created by declining fish stocks poses a challenge to resource users and managers. The problem is particularly acute in poor nations, such as those in East...
The emerging world crisis created by declining fish stocks poses a challenge to resource users and managers. The problem is particularly acute in poor nations, such as those in East...
The traditional stake-net fishers of the ecologically sensitive Jambudwip island, West Bengal, India, face a likely ban of their seasonal fisheries
This is a brief account of the discussions at the 2004 meeting of the CBD on Agenda Item 18.2 on marine and coastal biological diversity
Programme element 2 in the Annex on programme of work on protected areas under Agenda item 24 is relevant to fishworkers.
Programme element 2 in the Annex on programme of work on protected areas under Agenda item 24 is relevant to fishworkers.
The following is the draft decision on marine and coastal biological diversity taken at the 2004 meeting CBD.
The following is the draft decision on marine and coastal biological diversity taken at the 2004 meeting CBD.